Overview
- Google’s court filings describe a “fastest path” that puts Aluminium in the hands of commercial trusted testers in late 2026.
- The documents set a full release for 2028, with enterprise and education deployments included in that wave.
- Google’s lawyers say Aluminium will not run on all existing Chromebook hardware, obligating ChromeOS updates through at least 2033 under the 10‑year policy.
- The same filings set 2034 as the timeline to phase out ChromeOS once support commitments end.
- An illustration characterizes Aluminium as ChromeOS built on the Android stack, and Judge Amit Mehta’s order exempts ChromeOS and its successor from certain self‑preferencing bans; Google declined to comment on the timeline.